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Read it and Weep

Summary: Read it and Weep is a good podcast about bad books, movies, and TV. Each week 2.5 comedians and a guest make fun of things like Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, Going Rogue by Sarah Palin, and anything Keanu Reeves has been in.

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 Ghost by John Ringo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 61:08

This is the worst book. It is about a rapist killing people. Did I mention he's a rapist? It's about a rapist.Thank you for sponsoring, Dick. No refunds.

 Short Circuit (1986) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 63:39

The year is 1986, the problem is the cold war, the solution is a giant talking war robots. It's all well and good until one of those war robots accidentally gains sentience and starts making friends with the locals after a lightning strike causes him to Short Circuit!Like a lot of things, it's flawless if you ignore the racism. Except for Fisher Stevens in brown face, it's a really fun romp through the 80s including optimism about robotics, fear of the military industrial complex, and the love between war robot and a trash compactor.Thanks to Dave from California for sponsoring his annual guilty pleasure!

 Robin Hood (2010) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 63:58

Everybody knows the story of Robin Hood: a wiley young fox stealing from king lion and a his servant snake to give to the other creatures of the forest. It's a good story and what it didn't need was a dour remake starring Gladiator.But such a thing does exist. It's got all the right pieces, good actors, good director, and a good forest to shoot in. But for some reason the pieces don't come together. It lacks any semblance of fun and replaces much of the action with political speeches.Thanks, Nathan from Durham for sponsoring this episode and setting us out to solve the mystery "How did this go wrong?"

 Veggie Tales | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 67:54

Computer animation in the 90s was so bad, the creators of Veggie Tales opted for vegetables because they were easier to draw than people. The primitive animation also smoothed over all the slavery in the Old Testament.We sat down with Angela Webber, one half of the nerd-folk band The Doubleclicks, to talk about her childhood (and some adulthood) favorite show, Veggie Tales. We watched four episodes:1995 - Are You My Neighbor1995 - Rack, Shack, and Benny1996 - Dave and the Giant Pickle1997 - Josh and the Big WallIt was a great overview of the weird world of singing religious vegetables that will stick with us for a while.

 NCIS | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 64:11

If there's a crime in Baltimore, The Wire will solve it. If there's a crime ripped from the headlines, Law & Order will solve it. If there's a crime involving Germanic animals, Grimm will solve it. But if there's a crime involving a Marine's body falling out of the sky, you need the fine folks at NCIS.N.C.I.S. is the Navy Criminal Investigation Service, a fictional group of super cops who solve military crimes using magic screens and invasion of civil liberties. And nerdy, pacifistic comedian Jackie Kashian has a guilty pleasure for this procedural for some reason. So we discussed police tropes, potential spinoffs, and the finer points of aging heart throbs.

 Vibrations A.K.A. Cyberstorm | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 78:47

If a group of hillbillies steal your hands, don't despair. If you put your mind to it, you won't just make waves, you'll make... Vibrations!That's what happens to TJ, an up and coming musician. But his new raver friends make him new friends and he's better than ever before. Now he's not just a guy, he's a Cyberstorm! Who cares that he treats his whole family like shit? He knows where he belongs because all the world is a rave!If you missed this movie in 1996, don't despair. You can count on us to summarize it for a really long time along with our helpers (and the fine people who brought this movie to our attention) Matt & Kseniya from I Love Bad Movies.

 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 64:39

The best way to protest the new, terrible Ninja Turtles movie is to watch the old terrific (but only because we were kids) Ninja Turtles movie. So that's what we did.And what joy it brought to us. Remember how much they loved pizza and making sassy early-90s pop culture references? We love those things too! And remember how they were made out of thick rubber suits so they couldn't really move? That's still fun today!The movie doesn't really hold up, but who cares? It's fun, and none of the money goes to Michael Bay, which is radical.

 Step Up: All In | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 67:03

Chris and Tanya LOVE the Step Up movies. Alex and Stephen do not really care for the Step Up movies. There's only one way to solve this: dance battle!Step Up: All In is the fifth (!) movie in the dance battle series. Loosely plotted around some young adults who are sad they don't get to have fun for a living, the characters and dialogue are just stall tactics between increasingly epic dance numbers. The finale is an everybody-wins feel-good steam-punk dancethon in Las Vegas featuring thousands of pounds of sand AND pyrotechnics. And the good guys win and everything is lovely.Since this was all for Chris and Tanya, they walk us through the finer points of ice-bucketing your blisters and keeping your elbows clean. If the podcast isn't good enough for you, we'll just rehearse some more. 5-6-7-8!

 Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 66:30

Do you like magic? How about realism? How about combining them into a 32+ hour slog for no apparent reason? That's Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale.It's the turn of the century (both of them) in New York (but not really) and a burglar/time traveler has to fall in love and stop a bridge from being built and also ride his magic horse to victory against a time traveling gang. Also a ton of other stuff happens and none of it matters because there's not really an ending. And somebody is a metaphor for Jesus.We do our best to break down all the hidden meaning in our new game Symbol Crash (sponsored by Zildjan [but not really]).Thanks to Matt for sponsoring!

 BONUS! Fifty Shades Of Grey Trailer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:35

When a highly anticipated trailer for a highly anticipated movie that we know we're going to hate comes out, we like to record ourselves watching it. This is the case with the new trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey.Since we knew we'd hate that, we also watched the new teaser for Mocking Jay Part 1 (of 5? 6?) and the amazing-looking 2009 animated feature Killer Bean Forever. Look for our reviews of all three in the near future.

 The Rising by Brian Keene | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:11

This is a book about zombies. Sounds fun, right? But check this out: what if a book about zombies... wasn't fun at all? That's The Rising.Brian Keene's debut novel follows three people dealing with the demon zombie hellscape caused by an accident at a particle accelerator. Their paths converge in a sexual assault van in Pennsylvania in one of the top 5 most gratuitous horrifying things that happen in a book with a lot of contenders.The Rising doesn't have the terror of other zombie stories but replaces it without gross-out humor a 15 year old boy might enjoy.Thanks (but only kinda) to Carlos for sponsoring this horrible ruination of 8+ hours.

 Labyrinth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:44

Jim Henson didn't just make the cute Muppets on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. He also applied the same foam techniques to stranger projects like the incomprehensible but delightful Labyrinth starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and The Bulge In David Bowie's Pants.Imagine a world where goblins are real. And imagine those goblins are ruled by a non-goblin, the yoga pants wearing David Bowie. And further imagine those goblins stole your baby brother because you said the magic words on accident and you alone can save him but there's this big fucking maze. Makes sense, right? That's the predicament Jennifer Connelly finds herself in, and she only has 13 hours to do it using the power of friendship.Look, it doesn't make any sense. But it doesn't have to. The Muppets are awesome. David Bowie is awesome. The CG isn't even a little awesome but that in and of itself is fun. Overall, great fun to watch and thanks to Big H for sponsoring it.

 Ophelia by Lisa Klein | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 63:49

If you ever watched Hamlet and thought "this has too much excitement" then Lisa Klein's book Ophelia is for you.Ophelia imagines a world where the insane woman in Hamlet is only pretending to be insane and instead of being dead she just pretends to be dead and instead of just being told to get herself to a nunnery, she gets herself there. And stays there. For 1/3 of the book.It's basically Shakespearean slash fic with modern sensibility and no slashing.Thanks to Emily for sponsoring this episode! And welcome back Papa Ezra (on a part-time basis at least).

 BONUS! Snowpiercer Street Review | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:03

Alex and Anthony sat down right outside the theater to discuss the new film Snowpiercer. They liked it, but had a lot of thoughts about train travel in the dystopian future. If you like this, there may be more Street Reviews in your future.

 Split Infinity by Piers Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 67:58

Every fantasy book set in the future has too much explaining to do. But because that wasn't enough for Piers Anthony, his book Split Infinity has two different worlds and even more explaining. And, because Piers has never talked to a woman, the main character bangs a unicorn and a sex robot.Stile is a man caught between two worlds. On Proton he's a jockey with a robot girlfriend who's the master at The Game, a competition that could involve anything from Tiddlywinks to wildlife photography. On the other planet (sadly not called Neutron) he's a poet/magician with a unicorn girlfriend. In both worlds, he's a douche.We brought on David "The Wolf" Gborie to help us figure out whether Piers Anthony was, in fact, an asshole. We're leaning towards yes. We also explained where true magic comes from and what "hooping" means. We're sorry for the latter. And happy Paper Anniversary to Cyrus and Tara!

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